Back umber or brown, sides paler, apparently 
whitish in life. Fallen scales of back expose dark 
pockets, made up of blackish dots. From upper part of 
pectoral axil narrow silvery white band, widest between 
dorsal and anal where width ^ vertical eye diameter, 
and along upper edge narrow leaden bordering line. Iris 
bright silvery white. Fins pale brown, dorsal and 
caudal terminally and upper pectoral edge grayish. 
Philippines, Polynesia, Hawaii. 
A. N, S. P., nos. 28121 to 28124. Hawaiian Islands. 
U.S. Fish Comm. Length 127 to 138 mm. 
A, N. 3. P., no. 31032. Apia, Samoa. Bureau of 
Fisheries. Length 180 mm, beak and caudal broken. 
As Hemiramphus affinis . 
A. N. S. P., no. 51527. Pago Pago, Samoa. Capt. 
C. F. Silvester, Length 205 ram. 
